How to pronounce “thug” in English

thugs of them all would tell you that he still wets the bed that he has nightmares that he can't cope with the

well there goes a thug but if you see a white kid wearing a hoodie you say well

That means that any thug who buys your debts from a payday lender could literally — and legally — threaten to take away your legs (or your eyes, or your ears, or your arms,

a group of thugs, right-wing thugs, both in the army and and civilians.

--where we're not playing a thug, we're not playing a slave.

And Stan was such a thug.

supposed to also you know be a thug yeah

Neo-Nazis and gangs of thugs have rounded up those they suspect of being LGBT in Russia, shaved their heads to out them, beaten them severely,

But they cannot send out thugs to prevent competition the next time.

They think Wyclef is a new rapper that Young Thug is putting out.

to have two armed guards and an ex thug to protect me.

And when you're dealing with the Re-thuglicans, you have to you really have to step up and be ready to to deal

and about 20 were actually murdered by Lysenko's thugs for doing the crime of modern Western genetics.

Working with criminals, thugs, as he called them, had compelled him to begin the jail ministry in our small Arkansan town.

Why did good man turn out to be thugs?

Looking into the eyes of the half dozen muscular thugs surrounding me, I tried to discern if he choked out those parting words to deflect suspicion

Which is why he got the nickname undersecretary for thugs.

people might feel that they were acting like thugs.

and endangered, black male and thug, black bodies and deceased are no longer synonyms.

So in the hood, they call me a thug hippie.

family are disgusting. No excuse for such thuggish behavior." And it is worth noting for listeners who may not be

But when we did lottery, it became thuggery and illegal and illicit and all of those things.

Just you know? And then I get with Thugga, and he's like, "yo, you know you're one of my greatest inspirations.

It's like the trauma that young black kids hear when they hear thugs and gangsters.

And if you have also read, "Among the Thugs", he wrote that maybe 10 years ago.

If you're at the top of a pyramidal social order and you have the thugs, and you have the swords, then the natural tendency for a human male

Just because to be Black and to wear a chain, you might be perceived as a thug or a gangster, as one of those rappers on those music videos.

We put on our best New York thug attitude, so to speak.

Nigger, gangster, thug, hood rat, jailbait-- any of those ring a bell?

So these guys, they love this kind of work because you can thug around and help the place out.

So the first thing that made me realize I'm kind of famous was when Young Thug was tracking Lyor Cohen down.

Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," but I was more into the thug songs of Tupac, another young rapper descended from Europeans.

I am from Baton Rouge, and this is actually me in my thug life years about 10 years ago.

Baratunde Thurston: So, cause I would never, a thug would never say, “I’m clearly not very thug.” With that inflection.

And everywhere we went, they sent increasingly menacing tattooed thugs with steroid-bloated biceps to intercept us.

heat waves, murders, thugs, chaos, refugees, stress, disease, extinction, disaster, IPCC.

And it comes on, and his 30-- I don't want to call them thugs, but tough guys from Boston.

So we got to the point where-- like you don't want to open your door for thugs.

Or, do we know for a fact that they are Syrian government thugs or are they protesters who are attacking plain clothes Syrian officers?

And then, half an hour later I'm getting beat up by thugs.

I would say, "OK, well these protesters are just thugs out there having fun."

You have a quote, actually, inside the book, Mark Twain-- "If there is a god, he is a malign thug."

Yeah, I got up and starting rapping with H.O.V.A., you know I, thug 'em, fuck 'em, love 'em, leave 'em, 'cause I don't fucking need 'em.

And within the black matrix, there’s inside the black community, “You’re not black enough because you’re not thug or hood or whatever.”

And, I mean, it's not unbelievable because he is a complete thug and the people around him are thugs and liars and crooks, as are most of these regimes.

No big deal, I am getting that tattooed right actually over my belly like "Tupac's Thug Life."

It's a "hug-a-thug" program.

It's a hug-a-thug program.

I mean, you have every-- this is going to sound funny, but you have everyone from the prime minister to the thugs going to church on Sunday.